Guide to the Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs

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The New York Public Library
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs
1936-1986

*MGZEB 10-5367

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Antony Tudor and Hugh Lain Photographs

Summary

Main entry: Tudor, Antony and Hugh Laing

Title: Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs, 1936-1986

Size: 8.65 linear feet (14 boxes)

Source: Donated by Isabel Brown, January 2001.

Abstract: The Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs consist of over
1500 prints, slides, and negatives documenting the careers and
personal lives of choreographer dancer Antony Tudor and dancer
Hugh Laing. Photographs depict works choreographed and/or
danced by Tudor and Laing, and also document portions of their
personal lives. Included are images of Laing with Diana Adams as
well as Tudor and Laing's friends, families, and colleagues.

Access: The collection is open to the public. Advance notice required.
Photocopying by permission only. For permission to publish, contact
the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Preferred citation: Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs, Jerome Robbins Dance
Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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Biographical / Historical note
Biographical note

Antony Tudor, born William Cook in 1908, was a British dancer, teacher, and choreographer
influential in modern ballet. Tudor studied with Marie Rambert at her Ballet Club and became a
dancer and later a choreographer for the company. In 1938, Tudor co-founded the London Ballet and
in 1939 he moved to the United States to work with the Ballet Theatre, later American Ballet Theatre.
Although Tudor retired from dancing in 1950, he continued to choreograph and teach for institutions
such the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, Juilliard School, and the Royal Swedish Ballet. In 1986,
Tudor was a Kennedy Center Honoree.

Tudor is known for works including: Jardin aux Lilacs (Lilac Garden), Dark Elegies, Echoing of
Trumpets, Gala Performance, Pillar of Fire, Shadowplay, and Undertow. Tudor often worked with his
long-time partner, the dancer Hugh Laing. Tudor died April 19, 1987.

Hugh Laing, born Hugh Skinner in Barbados, was a British ballet dancer. He met Antony Tudor while
studying at Marie Rambert's Ballet Club. Laing was a member of Tudor's London Ballet. He traveled
to the United States with Tudor and eventually worked with Ballet Theatre and the New York City
Ballet. During his career, Laing danced numerous roles created for him by Tudor as well as
choreographies by Jerome Robbins and George Balanchine. In 1954, Laing perfomed the role of
Harry Beaton in the film version of Brigadoon. Laing married the dancer Diana Adams in 1947; they
were divorced in 1953. Laing died May 10, 1988.

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Scope and content note
Scope and content note

The Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs document the career and personal lives of Antony
Tudor and Hugh Laing. Tudor and Laing worked together and separately in the dance world for
decades. The collection contains a significant number of professional photographs of dance works
related to the two men as dancers and to Tudor's work as choreographer, including Day Before
Spring, Dark Elegies, Dim Lustre, Gala Performance, Jardin aux Lilas/Lilac Garden, Pillar of Fire, and
Undertow. The collection includes professional and non-professional photographs of each of the
men onstage, backstage, and outside the dance world, including personal photographs of Hugh Laing
and Diana Adams taken on vacation and on tour. In addition, there are several professional and
amateur photographs of dancers, friends, and colleagues of Tudor and Laing.

The collection contains a number of slides which chiefly relate to trips to Barbados in and around
1959. One group of slides, however, appears to document the costumes of the 1948 ballet Shadow
of the Wind.

Most of the collection's negatives remain in their original glassine wrappers and have been listed
alphabetically. One group of negatives has been rehoused; it correlates to contact sheets within the
collection depicting artworks, people and horses.

Arrangement note

The Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing Photographs are organized by format in the following series:

Series I: Prints
Series II: Slides
Series III: Negatives
Series IV: Oversized
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Series descriptions and container list

Series I: Prints
This series contains photographic prints from the collection. Prints primarily exist as
4x6, 5x7, and 8x10 sizes. Larger images may be found in Series IV: Oversized.

Subseries I: Works
This subseries contains photographs related to dance works that were created,
choreographed, and/or danced by Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing. A few
photographs document Tudor choreographing the works. Most of these
photographs were taken by professional photographers, including Fred Fehl,
Louis Melançon, Enar Merkel Rydberg, Richard Tucker, and Alfredo Valente.

Images are arranged alphabetically by the work’s title; and further arranged by
size of image and by photographer as appropriate. Several works contain
photographs from numerous casts and productions.

Box Fol
1 1 Afternoon of a Faun
Ballet Theatre production.
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing.
Photographer not credited.
2 Age of Anxiety
New York City Ballet production.
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, John Kriza, Nora Kaye, and
others.
Photographer: Walter E. Owen.
Aleko
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Alicia Markova, and others
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Richard Tucker, Louis Melançon,
Alfredo Valente, plus others
3 5x7
4 8x10
5 Apollo
Dancers unidentified. Photographer: Fred Fehl.
6 Bayou
Dancers depicted include: Melissa Hayden and Hugh Laing.
Photographer: Melton-Pippin
7 Bluebeard
Ballet Theatre production.
Dancers depicted include Lucia Chase, Nora Kaye, George Skibine and
others.
Photographer: Fred Fehl.
8 Brigadoon
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Gene Kelly, and others.
Photographers not credited.
9 Continuo
Photographer not credited.
Dark Elegies
10 4x6
One image is a photographic postcard addressed to Tudor at Jacob's Pillow,
1951.
Dancers unidentified.
Photographers include: Louis Melançon and others.
11- 5x7
13 Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Lucia Chase, and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Maremichi Matsui, Enar Merkel
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Rydberg, and others.
14 8x10
Ballet Theattre, National Ballet of Canada, and Royal Swedish Ballet, 1961
productions.
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Kari Sylwan and others.
The Day Before Spring
Broadway 1945-1946. Choreographed by Tudor.
Cast depicted includes: John Archer, Bill Johnson, Irene Manning, and
others.
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing and Mary Ellen Moylan and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl and Ricard Tucker

15- Fred Fehl
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17 Richard Tucker
18 Dear Departed
Ballet Theatre production.
Dancer depicted: Hugh Laing.
Photographers include: John Lindquist and others.
19 Descent of Hebe
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing and Elizabeth Schooling.
Photographer not credited.
Dim Lustre
5x7
Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Nora Kaye, and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl
2 1-2 Fred Fehl
3 Uncredited
4 8x10
Dancers include: Hugh Laing and Nora Kaye.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Richard Tucker, and Alfredo
Valente.
Echoing of Trumpets / Ekon Av Trumpeter
5-7 New York Production
Photographer not credited.
8 Royal Swedish Ballet
Dancers depicted include: Gerd Andersson, Eki Eriksson, Nils Johansson,
Svante Lindberg, Jacques de Lisle, Mario Mengavrelli, Annette
Wiedersheim-Paul, Richard Wolf.
Photographer: Enar Merkel Ryeberg.
9 Contacts sheets.
Images include Tudor choreographing as well as some that are not “Echoing of
Trumpets”.
10 Fall River Legend
Dancers depicted include: Diana Adams, Ruth Ann Koesun, and Norah Kaye.
Photographer: Fred Fehl.
11 Fandango
Juilliard production.
Photographer not credited.
Gala Performance
4x6
12 Dance photos
Dancers unidentified.
Photographers include Louis Melançon and others.
13 Costume photos
Detailed color photographs of dance costumes.
Costume details in German on verso.
Ballet company unidentified.
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Photographer not credited.
14- 5x7
16 Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, and Natasha Trofimova.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Foto Studio Sabine Toepffer, and
others.
8x10
3 1 Ballet Theatre
Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing.
Photographer: Louis Melançon.
2 Royal Danish Ballet
Dancers depicted include: Vivi Gelker Flindt, Mette Honningen, and Solveig
Ostergaard.
Photographer: John R. Johnsen.
3 Royal Swedish Ballet
Dancers unidentified.
Includes two 5x7 images of background scenery.
Photographer: Enar Merkel Rydberg.
4 Giselle
Image of set backdrop.
5 Goya Pastoral
Also titled Goyescas
Dancers depicted include: Katharine Sergava and others.
Photographer: Fred Fehl.
6 Helen of Troy
Dancers depicted include: Lucia Chase, Anton Dolin, and Nora Kaye.
Photographer: Fred Fehl.
Jardin aux Lilas / Lilac Garden
7 4x6
Includes Royal Swedish Ballet production.
Dancers include Hugh Laing, Diana Adams, and others.
Photographers include: Sven Håkansson and others.
8-11 5x7
Includes Jacob's Pillow production.
Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, and Nora
Kaye.and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Sven Håkansson, John Van Lund
and others.
12- 8x10
15 Includes Ballet Rambert, 1936, Jacob's Pillow, National Ballet of Canada and
Royal Danish Ballet productions.
Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Sorella
Englund, Henning Kronstam, Maude Lloyd, Annette av Paul, Peggy
van Praagh, Jean Hughes Rochette, and others.
Photographers include: Gene Draper, Malcolm Dunbar, John R.
Johnsen, Andrew Oxenham, John Van Lund, and Carl Van Vechten.
16 Judgment of Paris
Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Lucia Chase, Viola Essen,
Agnes de Mille, and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Newsprint, Carl Van Vechten, and
others.
4 1 Lady of Camellias
New York City Ballet production.
Dancers depicted include Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing.
Photographers include: Walter E. Owen and others.
2 Leaves are Fading
Dancers unidentified.
Photographer: Martha Swope.

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3 La Leyanda De Jose
Teatro Colon production.
Dancers: Carlos Schafino and Olga Francis.
Photographer not credited.
4 Lysistrata
Dancers depicted include: Harold Turner, June Brae and others.
Photographer include: Malcolm Dunbar and others.
5 Mars and Venus, 1936
Mercury Theatre, London
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Pamela Foster, Sally Gilmour, and
Brigitte Kelly.
Photographer: Malcom Dunbar
6 Offenbach in the Underworld
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Nora Kaye, John Kriza, and others.
Photographers include: Sedge LeBland and others.
7 Pas de Quatre
Dancers depicted include: Diana Adams, Alicia Alonso, Ruth Ann Koesun, and
Nora Vance.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Will Rapport, and John Sanford.
8 Petrouchka
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl and others.
Pillar of Fire
9-12 5x7
Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Lucia Chase, Nora Kaye,
and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Will Rapport, Alfredo Valente, Carl
Van Vechten, and others.
13 8x10
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing and Nora Kaye.
Photographers include: Benn, Annemarie Heinrich, Enar Merkel
Rydberg, Richard Sasso, and others.
14 Prodigal Son
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing and Yvonne Mounsey.
Photographer: Walter E. Owen.
Romeo and Juliet
5 1-9 5x7
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Lucia Chase, Alicia Markova, and
others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Will Rapport, and others.
10- 8x10
12 Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing and Alicia Markova.
Photographers include: Gordon Antony, Annemarie Heinrich, Will
Rapport, Richard Sasso, Richard Tucker, Alfredo Valente, and others.
6 1 Shadowplay
Dancers depicted include: Anthony Dowell, Merle Park, Derek Rencher, and others.
Photographers include: Anthony Crickmay, Group Three Photography,
Houston Rogers, Donald Southern, and Reg Wilson.
2 Sleeping Beauty
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl and others.
3 Sunflowers
Photographer not credited.
4 Swan Lake
Dancers depicted include: Fernando Alonso, Anton Dolin, Nora Kaye, Alicia
Markova, Maria Tallchief, and Igor Youskevitch.
Photographers include Fred Fehl and Richard Tucker.

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5 Les Sylphides
Dancers unidentified.
Photographer: Fred Fehl.
6 Tally Ho
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Agnes de Mille, and others.
Photographers include: Fred Fehl, Richard Tucker, and Carl Van Vechten.
Undertow
7-11 5x7
Ballet Theatre and Komaki Ballet of Japan productiong.
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Diana Adams, Nana Gollner,
Nora Kaye, John Kriza, and others.
Photographers include: Larry Colwell, Fred Fehl, Maremichi Matsui,
Richard Tucker, and others.
12 8x10
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Diana Adams, and Nana Gollner.
Photographers include: Larry Colwell, Fred Fehl, Pix Incorporated, and
others.
13 Vauxhall Gardens
Dancers depicted include: Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Maude Lloyd, Elizabeth
Schooling, and others.
Photographer: J. W. Debenham.
Unidentifed works
14 General
Dancer unidentified.
Photographer: Fred Fehl.
15 Athens Festival, 1955
Dancers unidentified.
Photographers: C. Hatjiconstintinou, Poulidis & Diamoutis (names
transliterated from Greek), and others.
16 New York City Ballet
Dancers depicted include: Hugh Laing, Diana Adams, Andre Eglevsky, and
Tanaquil Leclerq.
Photographers not credited.
17 Norwegian National Ballet
Dancers depicted include: Anne Borg and Henry Mueller.

Subseries II: Personal and Portraits
This subseries contains dance photographs and professional portraits of Antony
Tudor, Hugh Laing, Diana Adams and other dancers. The subseries also
contains amateur photographs of Laing and Adams on vacations as well as
images of friends and family. Photographs include several of the Laing and
Skinner families, the children of Isabel Brown, and Chieko Nakagawa and her
family. In addition, there are several photos of a Philip Grausman bust of Tudor.
Antony Tudor
7 1 Choreographer
New York and possibly Stockholm.
Photograpers include: Gretl Geiger, John R. Johnsen, Sedge LeBlang,
and others.
2-3 Portraits
Photographers include: N. Alorent, Marcus Blechman, Annemarie Heinrich, G.
Maillard Kesslere, Jack B. Mitchell, Merkel Rydberg, Carl Van
Vechten, Y. Yahata, and others.
4 Kennedy Center Honors, 1986
Official Photograph of the White House, Washington.
Photographer uncredited.
5 Philip Grausman bust of Tudor
Photographer: Joseph Szaszfai.

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Non dance photographs of older Antony Tudor, Hugh Laing, Martha Hill, Agnes de
Mille, possibly Ilona Copen, and others.
Hugh Laing
Portraits
Dance and non-dance images of Hugh Laing with others.
7-9 4x6
Photographers include: Barbara M. Marshall, Louis Melançon, and others.
10 5x7
Photographers include: Semo and others.
11- 8x10
12 Contact sheets and photographs of Hugh Laing, Lucia Chase, Alicia Alonso,
and others.
Photographers include: Cyril Mathews, Louis Melançon, Wilson
Millar, Walter E. Owen, Alfredo Valente, and others.
13 Coney Island souvenir photo
14 Contact sheets
Photographer not credited.
Hugh Laing and Diana Adams
Photographs of Hugh Laing and Diana Adams and others.
4x6
8 1 General
Photographers not credited.
2-4 ca. 1950s
Photographers not credited.
5-6 March 1950
Photographers not credited.
7-8 Europe, 1950-1952?
Photographers not credited.
9-11 Paris and Europe
Photographers not credited.
12 Rome?
Photographers not credited.
13 Photographs of Laing and Adams with lion cub
Photographers not credited.
14 5x7
Photographers not credited.
15 8x10
Photographers: Walter E. Owen and others.
16 Color portrait in sleeve
Photographers not credited.
17 Framed image
Photographers not credited.
Diana Adams
Photographs of Diana Adams and others.
18 4x6
Photographers not credited.
19 5x7
Photographers not credited.
20- 8x10
21 Photographers include: Marcus Blechman, Louis Melançon, Gjon Mili, Walter
E. Owen, and others.
22 Color portrait in sleeve
Photographers not credited.

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